Is there any chance one of you other posters in this thread, or perhaps a lurker, could start an “ask the person with low natural testosterone” type thread?
I have given them and gotten them a few times. It feels like knuckle punch. It isn’t that bad on the overall pain scale but the hurt does persist for a while and you may be sore afterwards. Learn to treat it like any other sensation and dissociate it from trauma and you will do fine. It isn’t supposed to feel good but it is much better you just stay calm and think “Interesting sensation but it is for the best”. Medical and dental pain goes up many times higher than those injections so practice relaxation and dissociation techniques in case you ever have something truly bad to deal with.
When I was a little kid, strep throat meant a series of penicillin shots for five days.
OMG, they were nasty!
My mother gave me the best advice: after receiving a big honkin’ shot, EXERCISE that area! I had the least amount of trouble the day we went shopping and walked a lot! She said when she was due for a scheduled tetanus booster, she’d get it in her right arm and then come home and do the weekly ironing.
(yeah, it was a LONG LONG time ago that I was a little kid!)
~VOW
Intradermal means, literally, inside the skin. That is, into the dermal, or middle layer, of the skin. Ever had a TB test where they took a needle at a steep angle and put a little bump of liquid just under the surface of your skin? That’s an intradermal injection.
Yup.
By the way, “deep intramuscular” or “deep IM” doesn’t really have much meaning for injections that I can find. IM is IM, as far as my training went and as far as I can find in nursing resource texts. While there are some drugs that specify “deep IM” in their literature, the sites they name are the regular IM sites and the needle length they specify are regular IM needle length, so I’m not quite sure what’s up with that.
I am totally guessing here but what about injections for things like cortico-steroids/cortisone? Suffering from chronic rotator-cuff tears in both shoulders for years as I do, I used to regularly get cortisone shots in my left shoulder (the worst one). Now those injections needed to be done by a doctor who had experience with such injections, as they had to be precisely targeted and deeply injected into the actual tissue itself that is injured/damaged. Even as routine as they became (every four months or so, it was as frequent as was allowed for shoulder injections for cortisone), I still winced like a baby when it happened.
So maybe this is deep IM?